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Pistols Rebalanced

Inspired by discussions on whether Gunslinger Sharpshooters were viable in XCOM 2, here's a mod that aims (pun intended) to make pistols and Templar sidearms more compelling/viable weapons.

Now rebuilt with MCM and OnPostTemplatesCreated. Mod now replaces a weapon's damage settings with its own, based on weapon and tech category matching. Any changes to these settings will affect all pistols/sidearms except the Darkclaw Chosen pistol - it has its own settings.

Featuring two possible rebalances:
-Jose's rebalance (new default values):
-Conventional tier pistols/sidearms: 3 damage, 2 crit
-Magnetic tier pistols/sidearms: 5 damage, 2 crit
-Plasma tier pistols/sidearms: 7 damage, 3 crit
-Chosen Darkclaw: 7-8 damage, 3 crit

-Original rebalance (commented out in mod's XComRebalanceSettings file):
-Conventional tier pistols/sidearms: 2-4 damage, 1 crit
-Magnetic tier pistols/sidearms: 4-6 damage, 1 crit
-Plasma tier pistols/sidearms: 6-8 damage, 2 crit
-Chosen Darkclaw: 6-9 damage, 3 crit

To switch between rebalance options, place semi-colons in front of the Jose's rebalance values and delete the ones in front of the original rebalance values, and vice versa.

Special thanks to Jose in the comments for pointing out an option that might satisfy everyone.

Primary Pistols/Primary Secondaries Support:
People asked for it, now enabled via MCM option:
-Conventional tier pistols/sidearms: 3-4 damage, 2 crit
-Laser tier pistols/sidearms: 4-5 damage, 2 crit
-Magnetic tier pistols/sidearms: 5-6 damage, 3 crit
-Coil tier pistols/sidearms: 6-7 damage, 3 crit
-Plasma tier pistols/sidearms: 7-8 damage, 4 crit
-Conventional tier Darkclaw: 4-5 damage, 2 crit
-Magnetic tier Darkclaw: 6-7 damage, 3 crit
-Plasma tier Darkclaw: 8-9 damage, 4 crit

If you like this, check out some of my other mods:
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-Crysis 2 Music - Listen to epic score with the Music Modding System. Compatible with vanilla XCOM 2 and WOTC.
-Simple True Concealment - True Concealment for WOTC, courtesy of simple .ini tweaks.
-Suppression Weapons Rebuilt - get Suppression on base game, DLC, and mod guns, based on weapon category and blacklist config file.
-WOTC: Ranger and Grenadier Rebalanced - Get Implacable and Suppression as a Squaddie abilities, then an AOE Suppression ability on Grenadiers and a detection radius reduction for Rangers at higher ranks.
-Exclude Same Class Skills - avoid rolling your base game class' own skills in the XCOM skill tree.
-Rapid Fire Reverted - gets rid of the unmentioned cooldown on the WOTC version of Rapid Fire.